Retours. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Following a brieve of inquest, in the case of the claim to heritable property by an heir, the verdict was retourable (returnable) to Chancery. The extract or copy of the retour to Chancery was in practice termed the retour. There were two forms of retour, a special retour, which specified the lands that were to be inherited and from the 16th century, a general retour, which did not specify the lands. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'. 7th edition.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows:
(i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5);
(ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48);
(iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51);
(iv) List of Religious houses (page 185);
(v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates:
16th century-early 17th century.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Confirmation by William I of gift by Hugh and William Giffard to the church of St. Andrews of the church of Tealing. Kincardine, 1189x1195. (Hugh de Roxburgh, chancellor; no date). Printed in ‘Regesta regum Scotorum’, volume ii, number 358.(ii) Confirmation, [1173-1178], by William I of gift by Walter, son of Philip to the church of St. Andrews of the land of Adhebrecces. Kinghorn, 1173x1178. (D.G.: Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld). Printed...
Dates:
12th century-1553.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows:
1. Rentals of benefices, 1561;
2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628;
3. The contributions to the Lords of Session;
4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593;
5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates:
16th century-1628.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.19
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Family papers, including contracts, retours and sasines, some concerning Gilbert Skene., 1540-1661.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/3
Scope and Contents
Contains:39. Copy assedation Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, in favour of James Guthrie burgess of Edinburgh and Christiane Barron his spouse of the teinds of the lands of Bannabrioth and half of the mill-lands thereof in liferent and for three heirs lives and 90 years thereafter. Edinburgh, 27 January 1577.40. Contract at Edinburgh 16 September 1575 between Mr Gilbert Skene, doctor of medicine on one part and John Melros, writer burgess of Edinburgh on the other part...
Dates:
1540-1661.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
General retour in favour of David Gardin as heir to deceased John Ramesay, his mother’s brother., 2 May 1576.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8468/23
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Dates:
2 May 1576.
General retour of Robert Dalrymple Horn as heir to his elder brother, Hugh Horn., 1747.
File
Identifier: Acc.6275/44
Dates:
1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
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Papers concerning the estates of Foxhall, containing titles, financial papers, and other related material.
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Papers concerning the estate of Foxhall, containing titles and other related material.
Lathallan family charters, sasines, retours and related papers., Circa 1420-1681.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/2
Scope and Contents
Contains:13. Charter by William de Strachine and John Yhung son of Richard, baillies of Perth and the community of the same granting to John de Spensa son & heir of William de Spensa, senior a tenement, belonging to the deceased John son of Malcolm, burgess of Perth who was owing £4 to the royal custumar, on the South side of South Street between the land of William of Qwhitsum on the east and the land of Robert Broun on the west for payment of the said sum, the accustomed...
Dates:
Circa 1420-1681.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
List of bishoprics and monasteries in Scotland, with the names of their founders, 1st half of 17th century; and a copy of the Retour of the lands of the shire of Fife, 1517, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.12
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.30.
Dates:
1517, 1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of books of Assumption.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Papers, mostly financial and property records, of and relating to the Carntyne estate, including papers relating to interests of the Gray family in the coal industry., 1518-1945.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-111
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates:
1518-1945.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Retour of an inquest made at Edinburgh on 17 June, 1558 finding that John Ruthirfurd of Hunthill was heir of provision of Andrew Ruthirfurd of Hunthill, his brother, in the lands of Caiphoip in the barony of Hownum and sheriffdom of Roxburgh., 17 June 1558.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7750/67
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Contains 71 writs and three detached seals, with Cairncross Charters of the Regality of Melrose (listed in "Selections from the Regality of Melrose", volume III, (1917), pp 373-382).Please note that the Rutherford name is represented variously throughout the charters, including Ruderfurde, Ruthirfurde, and Rutherfurde.This collection consists of material transferred from the Scottish Record Office to the National Library, and is supplementary to the main body of...
Dates:
17 June 1558.
Retour of an inquest taken at Jedburgh on 16 November 1529 finding that John Rutherfurd was heir of Andrew Rutherfurd, his brother, in the lands of Nether Chatto and others lying in the sheriffdom of Roxburgh., 16 November 1529.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7750/25
Dates:
16 November 1529.
Retour of an inquest taken at Jedworth on 2nd November 1507 finding that George Ruthirfurd was heir of William Ruthirfurd of Hunthill, his father, in the lands of Nethirchatto, Scharplaw, Edilliscleuch and Hangandeschaw., 2 November 1507.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7750/15
Special retour in favour of Henry Ramsay of Redy as son and heir of deceased Andrew Ramsay, of lands of Redy, in earldom of Fiff., Circa 1450.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8468/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Dates:
Circa 1450.